1. Update us where you stand on your topic idea:
My topic idea hasn’t changed since Blog #1. The topic idea is already refined as it is an individual case: Amityville House.
2. Tell us what you find online:
The following key terms were useful:
Amityville: Horror; Amityville Movie; Amityville, New York; Famous Haunted Houses; Curse; Murder; Haunting; Exorcism
I found wikipedia pages, articles talking about the story and some trying to debunk it, a couple books, movies, and documentaries. The issues they talked about is the legitimacy of the event that has occurred in Amityville’s haunted house. Wikipedia tells the audience that Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed all six of his family members with a gun in the house. Later the Lutz family moved into the same house and a month later they were driven out in fear because of the paranormal phenomena that occurred.
3. Tell us what books or scholarly articles seem important:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/facts-amityville-horror-murders-article-1.2830746
4. What ideas about your topic did you get from this search?
While going through the searches, l found out that people were skeptical of the house being haunted and Lutz’s story. Furthermore, they talked about the events that supposedly happened there: strange noises, moved furniture, upside-down cross, etc. They even called in a priest to solve the problem. Another section the sources like to talk about is the previous owners of the house and the murders.
5. What resources did you uncover?
This book is useful because it recounts the Amityville Horror’s backstory of Ronald DeFeo Jr.’s murders and cursed the house with an evil spirit or energy. Also recounts the Lutz’s family’s experiences in the house in narrative detail.
This article talks about the legitimacy of the story of The Amityville Horror. There were a few “glaring discrepancies in the various accounts of the event,” and the residents living in the house after the Lutz said that they haven’t “experienced anything remotely similar to the [paranormal] disturbances” (Shorey 2018). It seems to be useful because there are links to the claims made in this article.
6. Did you find any controversies over your topic?
The major controversy of The Amityville Horror is whether or not it is a hoax and if the Lutz family fabricated their experience for monetary gain. One piece of evidence is that Butch DeFeo’s lawyer, William Weber, and the Lutz family “created this horror story over many bottles of wine” to gain a new trial for his client (Shorey 2018).
Paranormal Spectacle 
There is a film titled “My Amityville Horror” available through Amazon Prime
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